Maybe it's just me, but the hippo being able to move that fast through the water is frightening. 🤯

Also, this is the most terrified i've ever seen a male Lion!!

🦜I love watching birds take baths 💕💕

#birds #birdwatching #photograghy #BirdsOfTwitter #GanJingWorld #GJW

We cannot wait for our Rewilding Hope conference 5th and 6th June Ramside Hall. A fantastic two days of #RewildingHope sponsored by Rewilding Britain. Keynote speakers include Alan Watson Featherstone and Sacha Dench Conservation without Borders 👇🏼 🌏📽🌱🐾❤️. Book 👇🏼 and join us!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/rewilding-ho…

Tree lungwort (Lobaria pulmonaria) with textured lungwort (Lobaria scrobiculata) (pale blue-grey colour) & kidney lichen (Nephroma laevigatum) (dark brown), photographed on the trunk of a rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia) in a wet part of Glen Affric during my day there last week.

In 1997, Julia Hill climbed a 200-foot 1000-year-old Californian redwood tree and did not come down for 738 days to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down.

She ultimately reached an agreement with the company to spare the tree and a 200-foot buffer zone…

I think we need to sound the alarm, not just about climate change itself, but if our governments, corporations, and financial institutions, have ever really committed to addressing the climate crisis. If the whole supposed campaign has been a fraud.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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Crested Kingfishers (冠鱼狗, Megaceryle lugubris), in Hubei province.
Its #Chinese name is literally translated as 'crested fish-dog', a tribute to the birds' prowess at catching fish. ❤阿光

#China #nature #Peace
#wildlife #photography
#birds #BirdsSeenIn2024

We need some more participants for our workshop 'A Rewilding Journey' from 11-18 May. Based in beautiful Glen Affric, it's a great opportunity for anyone interested in rewilding & we have bursary funds available. Please repost
Ben Goldsmith George Monbiot
alanwatsonfeatherstone.com/events/a-rewil…

Such grim irony. Now we hear Rwandan state airline refuses to fly our outsourced asylum seekers to Kigali due to reputational damage of doing so. Can barely keep up with the revelations showing how cruel & wrong Sunak’s Rwanda policy is in both principle & practice

ECHR ruling on Swiss women's case that their human rights were violated by climate inaction is huge. Pay attention UK Government...your failure to act is putting lives here in the UK at risk too - and it is morally and legally indefensible.

#Elephants

Elephant trophy hunting in Botswana resumed in 2019.

Between 2018 - 2022, the number of elephants decreased by 25% in areas that were open to hunting.

Elephants in Africa: in 1930 about 10 million
Now ~ 415K

You can see where they are heading ....

Source in 🧵

#collapse #biodiversity

Forest defenders return to Styx Valley - Our planet’s tallest flowering plants are being logged in the Styx Valley of the Giants and must be saved from destruction #politas
bobbrown.org.au/forest-defende…

Spectacular close-up views of an active volcano captured by Bjorn Steinbekk.

The other swans aren't gonna believe this

A group of fluffy king penguin chicks chasing a feral cat in Falkland Islands

The trend is just remorseless and undeniable.

But emissions keep rising, fossil fuel corporations are planning to expand operations, and governments are doing next to nothing.

I thought at this late stage that eyes would be opened and serious action taken, but I was wrong.